Original Message
I shot my first Central PA sprint car race 44 years ago today, on March 18, 1979 at Williams Grove and was immediately hooked and couldn't wait to return to that area for more races.
Kramer Williamson won that day. (shown here on 3/18/79 in the #11, racing with Lynn Paxton 1)
Then, ten days later I thought I'd never have the chance to shoot another race out there after the nearby 3 Mile Island nuclear plant had a meltdown on March 28--which in a worst-case-scenario would have turned that whole area into a radioactive wasteland.
In one heck of a coincidence, a few days before the 3 Mile Island meltdown, "The China Syndrome" movie was released in theaters. That movie was about a fictitious nuclear plant meltdown, which then really elevated the fears of everyone in PA.
Scary time for the area.
